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Every Saturday, I post a 15-20 minute podcast featuring some tracks I’ve been jamming the previous week, as well as some commentary and random musings from yours truly. Enjoy!

Playlist:

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
Alex Winston – Sister Wife (Star Slinger Remix)
pulseprogramming – First They Fire
A Lull – Water and Beasts

Happy Friday! Tonight at midnight, the government may very well shut down because the GOP wishes to throw women’s rights under the bus. Surprise!  Here’s a mix I’ve compiled in celebration of our country’s (and our economy’s) impending doom.

REM – It’s the End of the World As We Know It

OFF! – Panic Attack

Green Day – American Idiot

Public Enemy – Fight the Power

Rage Against the Machine – Guerilla Radio (live)

It took a year longer, but if the old-skool flava of “Make Some Noise” is any indication, it sounds like Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, out May 3, is gonna be worth the wait.  The single itself is out April 12th, with a decidedly less-awesome Passion Pit remix as the B-side.  But the coolest part of all this is probably the short film coming soon, where a star-studded cast play young-and-old Beasties dueling each other.  Check the red band trailer out below and STAY FRESH.

If there’s one thing I love, it’s slowly watching the rest of the world catch on to awesome music.  Slowly, but surely.  And blogging big wigs are starting to grasp the psych-laden, hallucinatory haze of the Diamond Center. About damn time.  RCRD LBL recently posted a new track, “Caraway,” from the Richmond crew (though in my heart they’ll always be a Lubbock band), and you can preorder their new 7-inch right here.  And I suggest you do; all the cool kids are rocking the Diamond Center, and they have been for years.

With the release of On a Mission Katy B has burst onto the indie electro/dance scene Stateside, and the result is a mix of dub beats, Joker-esque riffs, and Robyn confidence. The talent is here – as the dubstep phenom crosses over into the popular realm, Katy uses her voice and utilizes smart production to hone her own niche in the burgeoning sound. At least that’s what she did on the breakthrough single “Katy On a Mission.” The rest of the new disc is decisively diverse, but well crafted throughout. Incorporating subtleties from all walks of electro life, but keying in on what made Katy notable (that rocking dubstep/pop beat), this newcomer does more with less, and she’s one to watch as we inch further towards the summertime.

Every Saturday, I post a 15-20 minute podcast featuring some tracks I’ve been jamming the previous week, as well as some commentary and random musings from yours truly. Enjoy!

Microphone’s not working properly this week, so it’s just tunes this time around. It’s all good stuff, though, so crank it!

Tracklist:

The Grenadines – Reservations
Cloud Nothings – Local Joke (Neon Indian cover)
The Weeknd – Wicked Games
Pusha T – Touch It (feat. Kanye West)
Daniel Markham – The Devil

Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.

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What a great week it’s been for music and mixtapes out of the blue. One Wolf’s Daniel Markham has dropped a new surprise LP for the masses, a collection of songs written in Athens, GA. You can stream and download the sucker above via Bandcamp.

The recording quality is more of a lo-fi, DIY endeavor than previous One Wolf undertakings, but the songs are all Markham, introspective, melodic, occasionally foreboding, and always with specific direction. Live favorite “Across the Water” is resurrected, and new tracks “The Devil” and “It’s All Downhill From Here” reveal Markham’s growth in songwriting.